Nick Fountain

Nick Fountain

@fountain.bsky.social

Planet Money Reporter and Co-Host, former Ballpark Vendor and Cabinet Sander 📍Ventura, CA Signal: fountain.40

4,425 Followers 549 Following 46 Posts Joined Jun 2023
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I've done crazier

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2 weeks ago
wapo breaking news banner: "Neanderthal males and human females had babies together, ancient DNA reveals"

hall of fame for breaking news alert abuse

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1 month ago
Mark Epstein email to his brother, Jeffery Epstein: "I have access to the Internet because WNYC is across the street
broadcasting with generators. I happen to get their wifi signal. I went over there the other night and badgered them for
the user name and password. My Cooper Union Chairman of the Board business card helps in those situations. "

Mark Epstein convinced someone at WNYC to give him the wifi password during the 2012 blackout.

This skeet is for a very niche audience.

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1 month ago
Screenshot of obituary for LA Times plants reporter Jeanette Marantos:

"Marantos wrote personal finance stories for The Times from 1999 to 2002. She moved from Washington back to Southern California in her 50s to restart her journalism career, at one point interning with KPCC, now known as LAist, Dimitri Smith said. In 2015, she returned to The Times to write for the Homicide Report. A year later she started contributing to the Saturday section’s gardening coverage, which she would work on full time in 2020 when it relaunched as L.A. Times Plants. She described the two disparate beats as a way of staying balanced, her yin and yang."

Absolutely love this career trajectory. RIP to a legend. www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

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1 month ago
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Iran, protests, and sanctions : Planet Money Book tour tickets and details here.The recent protests in Iran are about so many things. Human rights, corruption, freedom. But this time – they are also motivated by economic hardship. Hardship cause...

On the most recent @planetmoney.bsky.social: what did US sanctions do to Iran's economy? How did they feed into the latest protests and crackdown in Iran? Sanctions are supposed to avert war, but how different from war are they? www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n... with @fountain.bsky.social

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1 month ago
Duke Chronicle op-ed "My connection with Jeffrey Epstein" by Dan Ariely

Live your life so that you never have to publish an op-ed in the campus newspaper about your connection with Jeffrey Epstein dukechronicle.com/article/my-c...

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Seattle folks, come see me on the Planet Money Book tour.

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2 months ago

is this foreal? this is so nice

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2 months ago

Happy FSA regrets day, to those who celebrate.

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2 months ago

Made a show about Chicago's infamous parking deal.

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3 months ago

I've had the pleasure of working in #Ventura on many occasions. The city has adopted many progressive plans, codes, and street designs (and one of my favorite parking benefit districts). If you'd like to build on that legacy, here's your chance!

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3 months ago
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Assistant Public Works Director/City Engineer Applications are accepted exclusively through the City of Ventura Career Site: www.cityofventura.ca.gov/jobs. Submissions through other websites or methods will not be accepted. Pay & Benefits The...

My little city of Ventura is hiring an Assistant Public Works Director/City Engineer. Would you please tell your smartest, most pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly civil engineer friend about it? Good pay, and it's a lovely place to live. cityofventura.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cityof...

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3 months ago
For sale: baby gate (never used)
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3 months ago

@numble.bsky.social We miss numble!

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3 months ago
Economics Job Market Update: November 2025 - A Historic Low

Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social

It's bad!

paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...

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3 months ago
Boston Globe headline: "They said they were asked to sign petitions for housing or safer streets. It was really to end recreational weed sales."

Posing as urbanists! Incredible www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/20/b...

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7 months ago
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Now you can rest easy knowing that the mouse in your house has been killed... on the go!

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1 year ago
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‘Heavyweight,’ an Acclaimed Narrative Podcast, Returns Pushkin Industries, the podcast company that will release the show, is betting that documentary-style audio programs can still win an audience.

Your favorite podcaster's favorite podcaster is back (baby!) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...

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1 year ago

The one guy who majored in cuica, the Brazilian squeaky drum: I’ve made a huge mistake, I’ll never be able to make a dime doing this

White Lotus music coordinator: hold up now

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1 year ago

I have some wicked smart colleagues and you should follow them go.bsky.app/GNFwoSV

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1 year ago

Sarah and I went to Altadena to try to figure out what happens next.

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1 year ago

My big break in radio was a decade and a half ago when the 2011 Japan earthquake damaged the Santa Cruz Harbor and Wharf and they still hadn’t fully fixed it when it crashed into the ocean earlier today. Lol. Lmao, even.

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1 year ago
Funny names for plows, like CTRL-SALT-DELETE and SLED ZEPPLIN.

New Hampshire DOT's name-a-plow contest is... terrific. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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1 year ago

Maybe when you pay for clicks on marketplace the scammers figure you’re a sucker 😂

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1 year ago

Where can I find this chart?

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1 year ago
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Anyways if you're in SoCal and need an obscenely long bench... www.facebook.com/marketplace/...

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1 year ago

Gave Facebook Marketplace $2/day to put my furniture listing in front of more eyes and seems like they exclusively served it to scammers. Nice!

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1 year ago

If you're a top .1% fan of an artist on Spotify you should probably just cancel your Spotify subscription and spend that money buying the artist's albums.

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1 year ago
Whatsapp messages about a bet about bitcoin

My dumb cousin won our 'Will bitcoin hit $100,000?' bet.

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1 year ago
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UnitedHealthcare CEO got assassinated at the same Hilton that is at the end of Michael Clayton 💫

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